With the press, talk show hosts, and politicians flailing away frantically over the shooting in Arizona, Butch Jackson, the Cafe's primary researcher of some local renown, decided to dig in and report, "While there have been approximately 20 assassination attempts against U.S. presidents, four of which were successful, attacks on members of Congress and local judges are much more rare. There have been only five recorded attempts against members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including the attack on Gabrielle Giffords. And two of those five attacks resulted from disputes between representatives (one of which was a duel in 1838). But there are also many more threats voiced against public officials, which should never be ignored. The majority are issued by what we call lone wolves — individuals acting on their own rather than with a group according to the Stratfor Research Group in Austin."
"Now, not only are dumb dumbs blaming people like Palin for the shooting, but they are screaming for legislation to protect our legislators. Even people like Bill O'Reilly can't help but join the noise. He says we just don't have enough US Marshalls to do the job, so let's make government bigger. Typical! What is unbelievable, yet typical, most calling for increasing the government;s size and regulation don't even know who is charged with the task of protecting our Congress-folks. Again Stratfor says, 'A little known fact is that the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) is the agency in charge of safeguarding congressional officials not only inside the perimeter of the Capitol grounds, which includes the House and Senate office buildings and the Library of Congress, but also when those officials are traveling. The USCP has its own protection division to analyze and investigate threats against members of Congress. Based on threat assessments, this division can assign teams for countersurveillance and security whenever and wherever a representative or senator travels. The USCP is also responsible for liaison with local law enforcement in order to ensure some level of security even when there is no identifiable threat.'
'In the case of any scheduled public appearance, protocol should require congressional staff members to notify the USCP, whose liaison unit will then alert local law enforcement, including city, county and state police, depending on the event. At this point, we don’t know why there was no police presence at Giffords’ event on Jan. 8. It appears that the event was announced the day before, according to a press release on her website. The Pima County Sheriff’s office has said it was not given prior notification of the event.'
Stratfor thinks there are security methods that can be effective. 'We need not think of a security detail being a scrum of uniformed police officers surrounding a public official. Instead, plainclothes protective intelligence teams assigned to countersurveillance as well as physical protection can be interspersed within crowds and positioned at key vantage points, looking for threatening individuals. They are invisible to the untrained eye and do not hinder a politician’s contact with the public. Moreover, a minimal police presence can deter attackers or make them more identifiable as they become nervous and they can stop individual attackers after the first shots are fired.' So we have the organization and resources to do the job. Now the people making noise should get out of the way, and those responsible should just make the system work and make changes if needed."
"Good report, Butch," weighed in Billy Roy. "As usual I agree with the Ronald Reagan quote that Sarah Palin used this week, 'We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty instead of the law breaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is responsible for his actions'. Certainly these 'Lone Wolf' situations are not reasons to indict our society and our country. Even Obama, in one of his better speeches since his campaign when he was again going to 'bring us all together', was calling on Americans to change. Why do the acts of a wacko in Arizona call for a change in all of America? Sounds like another one of Obama's 'transformations' to me. You have to hand it to the guy, he never let's up in pushing his agenda that being that America is screwed up and must be transformed by the government."
This report from the Cafe coupled with our sorrow over the loss of the precious nine year old girl in Arizona reminded me of another Reagan quote, “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.” This week it was reported that we did not protect the lives of 1,400,000 children who were aborted in the year 2008 alone. Also, in that number is the fact that up to 60% of all black pregnancies in urban areas end in abortion. It seems to me that if we could get as concerned about our unborn children as we are about our "rhetoric" that we might find more favor from the Man Above.
Again, it was Reagan who said "that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free."
Fighting for freedom is repealing Obamacare, reducing the size of government, killing cap and trade, protecting marriage, and defeating terrorism. Mark my word, Obama's idea of 'coming together' is starting next week for the Republican House to fall in behind him and the Democratic Senate and compromise away a Free America.
Think about it,
Jim
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Terrorists, Terrorism, and Nut Jobs
Scotty Anderson is the proud father of a football coach at a major university. Father, like son, is a student of strategies, tactics, and competition. The recent tragic shooting in Arizona of a US Congressperson and several other innocent people including a 9 year old girl, has prompted a major debate about terrorists and extreme acts of violence. Scotty came into the Cafe with considerable insight, "It seems to this old country boy that it is good time for folks to look at the big picture of terrorism and terrorists. Seems to me that modern terrorism is really a media event in today's world. Someone or some group with a cause that they would like to advance by drawing attention to this cause design their strategy around gaining access to the huge media outfits that trade on spectacular events of interest. These media companies have 24x7 outlets that can cover an event in a near real time environment. So if I am a terrorist by definition I have a cause and design and implement an event to draw maximum attention. A smart terrorist group will attempt to do this with minimum risks, costs, and maximum effect."
Butch Jackson jumped all over this, "Sounds like real smart talk Scotty but give us an example that we can chew on."
"How about 911, a true terrorist act? A group with a passionate cause, radical Muslim Jihadists with a worldwide intent to wage war and disrupt non-Muslim nations, chose a big operation by hijacking four large planes to bring destruction to the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and probably the White House. They, with the assistance of massive media coverage, can drive fear into all free world citizens, disrupt governments and even world economies (which they did by causing a recession), and even create conditions that lead to our invasion of Afghanistan. A big act of terrorism. Now the strategy can move to smaller incidents with less risks and costs and yet gain massive media coverage advancing the Jihadists cause. Smaller, less costly events like Fort Hood, the shoe bomber, and the NY Times Square incident. Each gaining huge media attention and coverage. Fifty years ago a hostile country would have to attack another nation to gain the media attention and exposure that these guys can gain with several very limited actions."
"So what is the significance of this to us?" came back Butch always probing for significance to the Cafe folks.
"Clearly if we are going to play defense against terrorism, we have to understand their strategy and defend accordingly. For example, if the government paints all terrorists as random acts of unbalanced people and treats them as criminals and a law enforcement problem you do stupid things like reading a terrorist his Miranda rights. I understand the first thing the cops did with the Arizona shooter (I will not dignify nor publicize him by using his name) was to tell him he had the right to remain silent. At the time we didn't know if he was acting alone or a member of a large group in a co-ordinated attack. You don't treat Radical Muslim Jihadists, who have a worldwide movement and strategy, who clearly fit all definitions of the terrorists using terrorism as their weapon the same way you treat a nut job like the guy in Arizona who killed six people. The nut job appears to have no major agenda, movement, nor organization. In fact, Arizona is not a terrorism act in my book," Scotty strived to connect the dots for Butch.
Billy Roy came in late as he is apt to do most of the time, "Scotty, that's good. I think I got it. In fact it helps me understand a group that really drives me crazy. Based on your definitions I would call these groups 'sideline terrorists'. They don't run the risks and costs of creating these media events of terror. They sit on the sidelines and then leap out like Tommie Lewis did in the Cotton Bowl when he tackled Dickie Moegle by coming off the bench on the sidelines and on to the playing field. Example: Gun control activists who wait for a shooting like the one in Arizona and then make every attempt using the media coverage to make the Glock pistol the perpetrator instead of the nut job that plotted the act and pulled the trigger. Same thing with the Socialist haters of Sarah Palin/Rush Limbaugh/Glen Beck/Tea Party who come rushing in from the sidelines to get media attention to their cause which is to control the press by blaming conservative media which they think costs them the November election. In my mind these groups are as sleazy as it gets."
Scotty closed it down, "BM, that summary is better than a Merle Haggard slow dance on a Saturday night. I might add, regarding gun control, the only person I have heard that ran toward the Arizona shooter did it because he was packing. I sure wish a soldier at Fort Hood would have been packing. He would have saved many, many beautiful lives."
Think about it,
Jim
Butch Jackson jumped all over this, "Sounds like real smart talk Scotty but give us an example that we can chew on."
"How about 911, a true terrorist act? A group with a passionate cause, radical Muslim Jihadists with a worldwide intent to wage war and disrupt non-Muslim nations, chose a big operation by hijacking four large planes to bring destruction to the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and probably the White House. They, with the assistance of massive media coverage, can drive fear into all free world citizens, disrupt governments and even world economies (which they did by causing a recession), and even create conditions that lead to our invasion of Afghanistan. A big act of terrorism. Now the strategy can move to smaller incidents with less risks and costs and yet gain massive media coverage advancing the Jihadists cause. Smaller, less costly events like Fort Hood, the shoe bomber, and the NY Times Square incident. Each gaining huge media attention and coverage. Fifty years ago a hostile country would have to attack another nation to gain the media attention and exposure that these guys can gain with several very limited actions."
"So what is the significance of this to us?" came back Butch always probing for significance to the Cafe folks.
"Clearly if we are going to play defense against terrorism, we have to understand their strategy and defend accordingly. For example, if the government paints all terrorists as random acts of unbalanced people and treats them as criminals and a law enforcement problem you do stupid things like reading a terrorist his Miranda rights. I understand the first thing the cops did with the Arizona shooter (I will not dignify nor publicize him by using his name) was to tell him he had the right to remain silent. At the time we didn't know if he was acting alone or a member of a large group in a co-ordinated attack. You don't treat Radical Muslim Jihadists, who have a worldwide movement and strategy, who clearly fit all definitions of the terrorists using terrorism as their weapon the same way you treat a nut job like the guy in Arizona who killed six people. The nut job appears to have no major agenda, movement, nor organization. In fact, Arizona is not a terrorism act in my book," Scotty strived to connect the dots for Butch.
Billy Roy came in late as he is apt to do most of the time, "Scotty, that's good. I think I got it. In fact it helps me understand a group that really drives me crazy. Based on your definitions I would call these groups 'sideline terrorists'. They don't run the risks and costs of creating these media events of terror. They sit on the sidelines and then leap out like Tommie Lewis did in the Cotton Bowl when he tackled Dickie Moegle by coming off the bench on the sidelines and on to the playing field. Example: Gun control activists who wait for a shooting like the one in Arizona and then make every attempt using the media coverage to make the Glock pistol the perpetrator instead of the nut job that plotted the act and pulled the trigger. Same thing with the Socialist haters of Sarah Palin/Rush Limbaugh/Glen Beck/Tea Party who come rushing in from the sidelines to get media attention to their cause which is to control the press by blaming conservative media which they think costs them the November election. In my mind these groups are as sleazy as it gets."
Scotty closed it down, "BM, that summary is better than a Merle Haggard slow dance on a Saturday night. I might add, regarding gun control, the only person I have heard that ran toward the Arizona shooter did it because he was packing. I sure wish a soldier at Fort Hood would have been packing. He would have saved many, many beautiful lives."
Think about it,
Jim
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Captain America is a Stud
My Mom, Maxine, loves the Dallas Cowboys. She loves them to the point that she can't watch anymore on a play by play basis. She says she just gets too excited and genuinely believes her watching too closely brings them bad luck. So she flips back and forth between their games and other programs. She recently ran across a letter that she shared with the folks at the Cafe. It follows:
"Recently, my brother was sitting in first class on a flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado Springs when a couple boarded and sat in front of him. He immediately recognized the man as Roger Staubach. They exchanged greetings, and Staubach said he was headed to Colorado Springs for the inaugural Warrior Games.
After 60 or 70 percent of the plane was boarded, a female Army soldier who had lost her leg boarded. Staubach insisted she sit in his seat; she said, 'no, thanks,' but he insisted. He took her place in a middle seat way in the back. After a few minutes, the young girl got tears in her eyes and said she wanted to go to her seat and have Staubach return to his.
The flight attendant overheard, and, as the female soldier headed to retrieve Staubach, the attendant said she had a no-show and both could sit in first class.
The flight attendant returned with the female soldier, but Staubach sent a double amputee Army soldier to sit in his seat. Staubach remained in coach the entire flight and disembarked last. My brother waited and asked for an autograph for my birthday; Staubach said certainly. It's a great gift, but the greater gift is knowing Roger Staubach is still Captain America."
Signed,
Drew Werner, Addison, TX
Nothing fires Butch Jackson up more than a good story about heroes, so he immediately took the stump to expand on Captain America, "Roger (the Dodger) Thomas Staubach was born February 5, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio. To no one's surprise he is a very successful businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Hall of Fame former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969 until 1979. Staubach was key in developing the Cowboys to become one of the best teams of the 1970s and led the team to nine of the Cowboys record-setting twenty consecutive winning seasons. Staubach led the Cowboys to their first Super Bowl victory and as a result he was named MVP in Super Bowl VI. Staubach was described by legendary coach Tom Landry as 'possibly the best combination of a passer, an athlete, and a leader to ever play in the NFL', and Tom was the master of the understatement.
Staubach first achieved national attention when he was named the starting quarterback of the Navy football team in 1962. He was hailed by Navy coach Wayne Hardin as 'the greatest quarterback Navy ever had.' He led the team for three seasons, leading the Midshipmen to two victories in the Army–Navy Game and an appearance in the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic. Yep, he came down here and beat up on us. In addition to earning the Heisman trophy by the seventh largest point margin, Staubach was elected to the College Hall of Fame in 1981.
After his required service in the United States Navy, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys. He led the club to five Super Bowl appearances, with victories in Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. Staubach was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VI becoming the first of four players to win the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP. Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard are the other three. He was named to the Pro Bowl six times during his eleven-year NFL career."
And of course, Billy Roy closed, "In other words, Roger Staubach is a stud."
Where are today's studs?
Jim
"Recently, my brother was sitting in first class on a flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado Springs when a couple boarded and sat in front of him. He immediately recognized the man as Roger Staubach. They exchanged greetings, and Staubach said he was headed to Colorado Springs for the inaugural Warrior Games.
After 60 or 70 percent of the plane was boarded, a female Army soldier who had lost her leg boarded. Staubach insisted she sit in his seat; she said, 'no, thanks,' but he insisted. He took her place in a middle seat way in the back. After a few minutes, the young girl got tears in her eyes and said she wanted to go to her seat and have Staubach return to his.
The flight attendant overheard, and, as the female soldier headed to retrieve Staubach, the attendant said she had a no-show and both could sit in first class.
The flight attendant returned with the female soldier, but Staubach sent a double amputee Army soldier to sit in his seat. Staubach remained in coach the entire flight and disembarked last. My brother waited and asked for an autograph for my birthday; Staubach said certainly. It's a great gift, but the greater gift is knowing Roger Staubach is still Captain America."
Signed,
Drew Werner, Addison, TX
Nothing fires Butch Jackson up more than a good story about heroes, so he immediately took the stump to expand on Captain America, "Roger (the Dodger) Thomas Staubach was born February 5, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio. To no one's surprise he is a very successful businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and legendary Hall of Fame former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys from 1969 until 1979. Staubach was key in developing the Cowboys to become one of the best teams of the 1970s and led the team to nine of the Cowboys record-setting twenty consecutive winning seasons. Staubach led the Cowboys to their first Super Bowl victory and as a result he was named MVP in Super Bowl VI. Staubach was described by legendary coach Tom Landry as 'possibly the best combination of a passer, an athlete, and a leader to ever play in the NFL', and Tom was the master of the understatement.
Staubach first achieved national attention when he was named the starting quarterback of the Navy football team in 1962. He was hailed by Navy coach Wayne Hardin as 'the greatest quarterback Navy ever had.' He led the team for three seasons, leading the Midshipmen to two victories in the Army–Navy Game and an appearance in the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic. Yep, he came down here and beat up on us. In addition to earning the Heisman trophy by the seventh largest point margin, Staubach was elected to the College Hall of Fame in 1981.
After his required service in the United States Navy, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys. He led the club to five Super Bowl appearances, with victories in Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. Staubach was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VI becoming the first of four players to win the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP. Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, and Desmond Howard are the other three. He was named to the Pro Bowl six times during his eleven-year NFL career."
And of course, Billy Roy closed, "In other words, Roger Staubach is a stud."
Where are today's studs?
Jim
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
The Bigger the Lie, The Bigger the Socialist
As we start a new year with a new Republican House of Representatives, but the same old President and US Senate, the press is focused on bi-partisanship and compromise. Butch weighed in, "How do you compromise with lying Socialists? Can you imagine compromising with Castro, Stalin, Hitler, Chavez, or Mao before they took office or after for that matter? Can you imagine these guys ever telling the truth? When I think about it I get this picture of a cute little white hen going out into the woods to negotiate with a gigantic Fox with feathers sticking out of his mouth. Which begs the question, 'Are Obama and his regime as dangerous to the US as the cutthroat Communist Foxes that I just named'?"
"Nope they are not as dangerous, they are way worse," came back Scott Riddle, local philosopher and cattle baron. "Worse because they are attacking from within the country with the aid of the Liberal press. One way to size the threat is by sizing the lies they use to gain power. In her inaugural address in 2007, as speaker of the house, little Nancy Pelosi vowed that Congress would engage in no new deficit spending. 'After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,' she said in an address from the speaker’s podium. 'Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.' She said this with two years left in Bush's term. She peed right in our eye and told us it was raining. And how big was the lie? Numbers don't lie:
The 108th Congress with Bush and Republican Majorities in Both Houses created $1.159 trillion in new debt
The 109th Congress with Bush and Republican Majorities in Both Houses created $1.054 trillion in new debt
The 110th Congress with Bush and Democratic Majorities in Both Houses created $1.957 trillion in new debt
The 111th Congress with Obama and Democratic Majorities in Both Houses created $3.220 trillion in new debt (a 64% increase over the 110th and 3 times the last Republican Regime, the 109th)
"During little Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as speaker, which commenced on Jan. 4, 2007, the federal government has run up $5.177 trillion in new debt. That is about equal to the total debt the federal government accumulated in the first 220 years of the nation's existence, with the federal debt rising from $5.173 trillion on July 23, 1996 to $5.181 trillion on July 24, 1996. As Nancy leaves her position of leadership she says she is very 'proud of her record'. I think this statement is true. She and her Socialists buddies have done what they set out to do. They have bought millions of votes and bankrupted the federal government in hopes of 'transforming' it to a Socialist State."
"What a mess," Billy Roy Mitchum lamented (he ever laments like Merle Haggard). "The reason George Bush's approval rating went through the floor wasn't that Liberals and Moderates deserted him. They never liked him much before. The Conservatives deserted him because of the $1Trillion deficits he allowed with the Republicans and then the Democrats. Little did we know that was chump change compared to the economic havoc that the Dems could, and did, bring. It boggles the mind that any regime could over spend $3,220,103,625,307.29 in two years. Write it out. That is a really big number. That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census. It drives our national debt to over $13 Trillion or $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States. A typical family of four owes almost $200 thousand."
Butch came back with passion having enticed the Chairman into the conversation, "Meanness don't just happen overnight. The lies come back to haunt you. Obama wants to demonize the Republicans for any reductions in spending. He had his henchman and advisor Austin Goolsbee on the Sunday talk shows claiming that a refusal by the Senate to increase the government’s debt ceiling (currently $14.3 trillion) would be 'catastrophic' and a sign of 'insanity'. This will be the next stupid debate. The Republicans will try to use the debt ceiling topic to make cuts in spending and the Democrats will disagree with the cuts and claim the Republicans are trying to ruin the country just to fight Obama. And yet Obama looked at the debt ceiling very different in 2006. Listen to his statement when George Bush was asking for an increase from the level then which was at about $8T versus Obama's $14T today:
Obama read his teleprompter, 'The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.'
"The guy is a shameless liar, just like Pelosi, and the facts prove it. Only those that are 'bought off' in some way could still be backing these guys."
BM closed things down, "The Republicans are going to have to toughen up cause when you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. The carnival begins now with the Socialists demonizing every move of the Republicans to cut spending as rich people bringing harm to women, children, blacks, gays, Hispanics, Muslims, unions, government employees, and students. Meanwhile the Republicans must have the gonads to define how large the government can, and should be, win that argument and then force reductions under the spotlight of the American people. Every act should be Constitutional and aimed at reducing government and creating private sector jobs. It starts next week with the Health Care debate. Let's get it on."
Think about it,
Jim
"Nope they are not as dangerous, they are way worse," came back Scott Riddle, local philosopher and cattle baron. "Worse because they are attacking from within the country with the aid of the Liberal press. One way to size the threat is by sizing the lies they use to gain power. In her inaugural address in 2007, as speaker of the house, little Nancy Pelosi vowed that Congress would engage in no new deficit spending. 'After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,' she said in an address from the speaker’s podium. 'Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.' She said this with two years left in Bush's term. She peed right in our eye and told us it was raining. And how big was the lie? Numbers don't lie:
The 108th Congress with Bush and Republican Majorities in Both Houses created $1.159 trillion in new debt
The 109th Congress with Bush and Republican Majorities in Both Houses created $1.054 trillion in new debt
The 110th Congress with Bush and Democratic Majorities in Both Houses created $1.957 trillion in new debt
The 111th Congress with Obama and Democratic Majorities in Both Houses created $3.220 trillion in new debt (a 64% increase over the 110th and 3 times the last Republican Regime, the 109th)
"During little Nancy Pelosi’s tenure as speaker, which commenced on Jan. 4, 2007, the federal government has run up $5.177 trillion in new debt. That is about equal to the total debt the federal government accumulated in the first 220 years of the nation's existence, with the federal debt rising from $5.173 trillion on July 23, 1996 to $5.181 trillion on July 24, 1996. As Nancy leaves her position of leadership she says she is very 'proud of her record'. I think this statement is true. She and her Socialists buddies have done what they set out to do. They have bought millions of votes and bankrupted the federal government in hopes of 'transforming' it to a Socialist State."
"What a mess," Billy Roy Mitchum lamented (he ever laments like Merle Haggard). "The reason George Bush's approval rating went through the floor wasn't that Liberals and Moderates deserted him. They never liked him much before. The Conservatives deserted him because of the $1Trillion deficits he allowed with the Republicans and then the Democrats. Little did we know that was chump change compared to the economic havoc that the Dems could, and did, bring. It boggles the mind that any regime could over spend $3,220,103,625,307.29 in two years. Write it out. That is a really big number. That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538 people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census. It drives our national debt to over $13 Trillion or $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States. A typical family of four owes almost $200 thousand."
Butch came back with passion having enticed the Chairman into the conversation, "Meanness don't just happen overnight. The lies come back to haunt you. Obama wants to demonize the Republicans for any reductions in spending. He had his henchman and advisor Austin Goolsbee on the Sunday talk shows claiming that a refusal by the Senate to increase the government’s debt ceiling (currently $14.3 trillion) would be 'catastrophic' and a sign of 'insanity'. This will be the next stupid debate. The Republicans will try to use the debt ceiling topic to make cuts in spending and the Democrats will disagree with the cuts and claim the Republicans are trying to ruin the country just to fight Obama. And yet Obama looked at the debt ceiling very different in 2006. Listen to his statement when George Bush was asking for an increase from the level then which was at about $8T versus Obama's $14T today:
Obama read his teleprompter, 'The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.'
"The guy is a shameless liar, just like Pelosi, and the facts prove it. Only those that are 'bought off' in some way could still be backing these guys."
BM closed things down, "The Republicans are going to have to toughen up cause when you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. The carnival begins now with the Socialists demonizing every move of the Republicans to cut spending as rich people bringing harm to women, children, blacks, gays, Hispanics, Muslims, unions, government employees, and students. Meanwhile the Republicans must have the gonads to define how large the government can, and should be, win that argument and then force reductions under the spotlight of the American people. Every act should be Constitutional and aimed at reducing government and creating private sector jobs. It starts next week with the Health Care debate. Let's get it on."
Think about it,
Jim
Monday, December 27, 2010
The Socialists Worked Through the Holidays--- Big Time
The 111th Congress, the most unpopular Congress in the recorded history of the United States with an all time low approval rating of 11%, ended last week with a flurry of legislative activity that set a record for a lame duck Congress. They couldn't have done it without the help of their Republican Senator friends who are listed at the end of the posting. The leftist media is delighted and eager to make the case that last week’s events portend a new era of bipartisan accomplishment, led by the White House, that will extend into the 112th Congress. In typical Obama fashion, while America was celebrating their holidays his henchmen and women were very busy demonizing, regulating, and confiscating.
The real action was in the agencies: Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Here is where the true picture of how the Obama Administration will advance their agenda in 2011 was displayed last week.
The most damage was probably done in HHS. First the NY Times discovered that what Sarah Pallin called the "Death Panels" was back and being enforced., It was stripped, but in typical Obama fashion, the provision was expanded and sneaked into Medicare. The defeated provision called for reviews every 5 years between patient and doctor to "educate" the patient on end of life decisions in an attempt to control costs and limit care. The provision sneaked into Medicare now calls for annual reviews in which the government will pay doctors for these "educational" services. HHA Administrators had warned their employees against letting these provisions leak to the press, and to prepare explanations there were leaks. HHS responded to the press reports by blaming the Bush administration which they said put these provisions into Medicare in 2003, a complete and typical Obama lie. The 2003 provision created a one time meeting with a doctor and patient when the patient entered the Medicare program.
Then on Tuesday, the HHS unveiled new price controls for the health insurance industry. Using new powers granted by Obamacare, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that starting next year, health insurance companies must receive permission from the Obama Administration before they can raise rates by more than 10 percent. Meanwhile Obamacare forces insurance companies to increase their coverage dramatically. This is to regulate Insurance Companies out of business so they can confiscate or take over all of Health Care just like the admired system in Cuba. This is only one of thousands of new powers Obamacare granted the HHS. Left unchecked, there are many new health care regulations to come.
Later on Tuesday, the FCC released its “net neutrality” rules, which will allow the federal government to begin regulating the Internet. This despite opposition from Congress and a contrary federal court ruling. Dissenting FCC commissioner Robert McDowell described the unprecedented power grab last week: “Nothing is broken that needs fixing." After demonizing Conservative Talk Radio (Rush Limbaugh) Obama wants to get control of the Internet early realizing that left operating in a free market environment it could be a huge obstacle like talk radio for a Socialist takeover of the government.
Then on Thursday the EPA announced that it will begin regulating power plants and oil refineries in an attempt to stop global warming. The new regulations will seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making it more expensive to turn fossil fuels into energy. The State of Texas has taken the EPA to court and the EPA responded by calling Texas a "renegade" state for not adhering to regulations that would drive up energy costs and increase our dependence on foreign oil and Algore sun and wind. But the Obama Administration did not stop there. Later in the day, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Bureau of Land Management was issuing new rules that would make it harder to develop natural resources on government-owned land. Both of these measures will not only drive up the cost of electricity but will also make us more dependent on foreign sources of energy.
The ability of the Obama Administration to step up their leftist agenda even after it was thoroughly “shellacked” at the polls is not an accident. It is the purposeful design of the Socialist movement, which has been working to undermine the Founders’ vision of our republic for over a century now.
The Heritage Foundation predicts, "This will be the fight of 2011: the unelected central planning 'experts' (including the Czars) of the Obama Administration versus the newly elected House of Representatives and state and local governments. The people are not powerless. Congress still has the power of the purse and can withhold funding for implementing Obamacare or writing global warming regulations. There is also the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to review and overrule regulations issued by government agencies. State and local governments can also thwart the federal administrative state by asserting their rights whenever possible. We can return power from Washington back to the people. Saying good-bye to the 111th Congress is a great first step."
Oh yes, the list of Republicans Who Supported the Socialist Regime in Voting to Weaken Our Military and National Defense:
(Listing only those who will still be in office in 2011)
• Lamar Alexander – TN
• Bob Corker – TN
• Lisa Murkowski – AK
• Johnny Isakson – GA
• Scott Brown – MA
• Thad Cochran –MI
• Susan Collins – ME
• Olympia Snowe – ME
Think about about it, and then get really mad, and then get ready to hold our elected officials feet to the fire,
Jim
The real action was in the agencies: Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Here is where the true picture of how the Obama Administration will advance their agenda in 2011 was displayed last week.
The most damage was probably done in HHS. First the NY Times discovered that what Sarah Pallin called the "Death Panels" was back and being enforced., It was stripped, but in typical Obama fashion, the provision was expanded and sneaked into Medicare. The defeated provision called for reviews every 5 years between patient and doctor to "educate" the patient on end of life decisions in an attempt to control costs and limit care. The provision sneaked into Medicare now calls for annual reviews in which the government will pay doctors for these "educational" services. HHA Administrators had warned their employees against letting these provisions leak to the press, and to prepare explanations there were leaks. HHS responded to the press reports by blaming the Bush administration which they said put these provisions into Medicare in 2003, a complete and typical Obama lie. The 2003 provision created a one time meeting with a doctor and patient when the patient entered the Medicare program.
Then on Tuesday, the HHS unveiled new price controls for the health insurance industry. Using new powers granted by Obamacare, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that starting next year, health insurance companies must receive permission from the Obama Administration before they can raise rates by more than 10 percent. Meanwhile Obamacare forces insurance companies to increase their coverage dramatically. This is to regulate Insurance Companies out of business so they can confiscate or take over all of Health Care just like the admired system in Cuba. This is only one of thousands of new powers Obamacare granted the HHS. Left unchecked, there are many new health care regulations to come.
Later on Tuesday, the FCC released its “net neutrality” rules, which will allow the federal government to begin regulating the Internet. This despite opposition from Congress and a contrary federal court ruling. Dissenting FCC commissioner Robert McDowell described the unprecedented power grab last week: “Nothing is broken that needs fixing." After demonizing Conservative Talk Radio (Rush Limbaugh) Obama wants to get control of the Internet early realizing that left operating in a free market environment it could be a huge obstacle like talk radio for a Socialist takeover of the government.
Then on Thursday the EPA announced that it will begin regulating power plants and oil refineries in an attempt to stop global warming. The new regulations will seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making it more expensive to turn fossil fuels into energy. The State of Texas has taken the EPA to court and the EPA responded by calling Texas a "renegade" state for not adhering to regulations that would drive up energy costs and increase our dependence on foreign oil and Algore sun and wind. But the Obama Administration did not stop there. Later in the day, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Bureau of Land Management was issuing new rules that would make it harder to develop natural resources on government-owned land. Both of these measures will not only drive up the cost of electricity but will also make us more dependent on foreign sources of energy.
The ability of the Obama Administration to step up their leftist agenda even after it was thoroughly “shellacked” at the polls is not an accident. It is the purposeful design of the Socialist movement, which has been working to undermine the Founders’ vision of our republic for over a century now.
The Heritage Foundation predicts, "This will be the fight of 2011: the unelected central planning 'experts' (including the Czars) of the Obama Administration versus the newly elected House of Representatives and state and local governments. The people are not powerless. Congress still has the power of the purse and can withhold funding for implementing Obamacare or writing global warming regulations. There is also the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to review and overrule regulations issued by government agencies. State and local governments can also thwart the federal administrative state by asserting their rights whenever possible. We can return power from Washington back to the people. Saying good-bye to the 111th Congress is a great first step."
Oh yes, the list of Republicans Who Supported the Socialist Regime in Voting to Weaken Our Military and National Defense:
(Listing only those who will still be in office in 2011)
• Lamar Alexander – TN
• Bob Corker – TN
• Lisa Murkowski – AK
• Johnny Isakson – GA
• Scott Brown – MA
• Thad Cochran –MI
• Susan Collins – ME
• Olympia Snowe – ME
Think about about it, and then get really mad, and then get ready to hold our elected officials feet to the fire,
Jim
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
We are in for one hell of a dangerous ride!!!
Billy Roy 'ain't' happy about the START Treaty, "In the spring of 2009, former hippie war protester and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a plastic button that was supposed to read 'reset' on both sides, once in English and once in Russian. But while the Obama Administration got the English part right, the State Department got the Russian word for 'reset' wrong, instead emblazoning the button with the word 'overload'. Well at least nine Republican Senators think even though this administration can't get one word right they will entrust them today to get a complete nuclear arms treaty right. You couldn't make something like this up. They call it START, and it looks like it is the start of Obama's disarmament program to pay back George Soros and his other Muslim and Communists supporters who hate the United States of America."
"After this week clearly the Republicans are now on the defense when it comes to our defense. The first order of business will be to ensure that President Barack Obama follows through on the promises he made in his letter to the Senate to fully develop a U.S. missile defense system in Europe. Who really believes you can trust Obama on anything? Senators should also monitor any new rounds of nuclear and defense arms negotiations with Russia to make sure they do not repeat the mistakes of New START. Already there are troubling reports of negotiations about further U.S. reductions of launchers and warheads. With the rise of China and other nuclear states, the U.S. should not undertake any further nuclear reductions that would favor Russia as strongly as New START does or would increase U.S. vulnerability to those that possess nuclear weapons now or in the future."
"The Obama Administration will do everything they can toward nuclear disarmament. Their combined nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament policy is now clear. The policy requires that the U.S. take an additional unilateral step toward nuclear disarmament in order to prove its good intentions in hopes that the bad guys will stop their race to arm terrorists with lethal weapons aimed at the West. Obama makes Jimmy Carter look not only tough, but smart as well."
"Republican leadership and the American people better reverse this President’s cuts to missile defense programs, move to build comprehensive missile defenses, and commit to developing a new generation of nuclear weapons suitable to meet U.S. security needs as rapidly as possible."
"The Dems needed nine Republican Senators to sell out to Obama and the Russians. Right now it looks like they have at least 9. What in the hell are they drinking in Tennessee? There must be a huge pay off:
Lamar Alexander, R-TN
Bob Corker, R-TN
Johnny Isakson, R-GA
Bob Bennett, R-UT (thank goodness he was voted out in November)
Dick Lugar, R-Indiana (a real disgrace)
George Voinovich, R-Ohio (surprise!!)
And of course RINOS, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine
While we are naming names, these are the proud Republicans that helped Obama repeal Don't Ask, Don;t Tell:
Murkowski, Lisa [R] AK (corrupt as a snake)
Kirk, Mark [R] IL
Ensign, John [R] NV
Voinovich, George [R) OH (the Dems can always count on old George)
And of course RINOS Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine
Lieberman, Joseph [I] CT
Not Voting Gregg, Judd [R] NH
Note: RINOS are Republicans in Name Only
"These guys paid no attention to the concerns of General Amos, Marine Commandant, 'I don't want to lose any Marines to the distraction,' the Commandant warned last week. 'I don't want to have any Marines that I'm visiting atBethesda [ Naval Medical Center
"Hold on to your seats, folks. We are in for one hell of a dangerous ride."
Think about it and ask God to Bless America,
Jim
"After this week clearly the Republicans are now on the defense when it comes to our defense. The first order of business will be to ensure that President Barack Obama follows through on the promises he made in his letter to the Senate to fully develop a U.S. missile defense system in Europe. Who really believes you can trust Obama on anything? Senators should also monitor any new rounds of nuclear and defense arms negotiations with Russia to make sure they do not repeat the mistakes of New START. Already there are troubling reports of negotiations about further U.S. reductions of launchers and warheads. With the rise of China and other nuclear states, the U.S. should not undertake any further nuclear reductions that would favor Russia as strongly as New START does or would increase U.S. vulnerability to those that possess nuclear weapons now or in the future."
"The Obama Administration will do everything they can toward nuclear disarmament. Their combined nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament policy is now clear. The policy requires that the U.S. take an additional unilateral step toward nuclear disarmament in order to prove its good intentions in hopes that the bad guys will stop their race to arm terrorists with lethal weapons aimed at the West. Obama makes Jimmy Carter look not only tough, but smart as well."
"Republican leadership and the American people better reverse this President’s cuts to missile defense programs, move to build comprehensive missile defenses, and commit to developing a new generation of nuclear weapons suitable to meet U.S. security needs as rapidly as possible."
"The Dems needed nine Republican Senators to sell out to Obama and the Russians. Right now it looks like they have at least 9. What in the hell are they drinking in Tennessee? There must be a huge pay off:
Lamar Alexander, R-TN
Bob Corker, R-TN
Johnny Isakson, R-GA
Bob Bennett, R-UT (thank goodness he was voted out in November)
Dick Lugar, R-Indiana (a real disgrace)
George Voinovich, R-Ohio (surprise!!)
And of course RINOS, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine
While we are naming names, these are the proud Republicans that helped Obama repeal Don't Ask, Don;t Tell:
Murkowski, Lisa [R] AK (corrupt as a snake)
Kirk, Mark [R] IL
Ensign, John [R] NV
Voinovich, George [R) OH (the Dems can always count on old George)
And of course RINOS Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine
Lieberman, Joseph [I] CT
Not Voting Gregg, Judd [R] NH
Note: RINOS are Republicans in Name Only
"These guys paid no attention to the concerns of General Amos, Marine Commandant, 'I don't want to lose any Marines to the distraction,' the Commandant warned last week. 'I don't want to have any Marines that I'm visiting at
"Hold on to your seats, folks. We are in for one hell of a dangerous ride."
Think about it and ask God to Bless America,
Jim
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
"Obama Is Either Stupid or a Socialst, and He Isn't Stupid"
To destroy a Christian Nation at some point in time you must destroy their military. A good first step might just be to make it a "secular vehicle for social justice". Just brand the military as a segment of our society that is basically ignorant, barbaric, and locked in a time warp.
Scott Riddle, local rancher and insurance baron, has given the Cafe a formula that they are using to test current events in DC, which is on a path of becoming the Socialist Capital of the World. Scott's formula was:
DEMONIZE
REGULATE
CONFISCATE
Now that the high school football season is over, even though Hubbard went 0-10 and never had a season, Butch Jackson has more time to follow world events, "The Teapartyers did some damage to Obama's plans to take control of the US economy so he is going strong to takeover and cripple our National Defense while we have our guards down thinking we just need to cut Government spending and reduce the deficit. Obama couldn't agree more about cutting government spending if it weakens our defenses. With the help of Republicans in name only he pushed through a repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'."
Scott says it fits the formula, "I heard the Socialist media DEMONIZING the military by talking about how 'ignorant' military people are by being afraid that gays would attack them in their showers. Obama says every other military in the world has gays. He never mentions that most of them don't fight wars and depend on the US for protection. The REGULATION is clear by forcing the military to become a vehicle for 'social justice' which will cause tremendous disruption while Obama is asking us to fight two wars with our hands tied behind our backs. In Afghanistan Obama insists we are there to disrupt Al Queda who left Afghanistan long ago. Meanwhile our troops are fighting the Taliban while Obama's plan is to negotiate a peace with the Taliban and leave. The CONFISCATE step will come when the Socialists must take control of the military, along with police forces, after having weakened them through REGULATION."
Billy Roy couldn't just sit back and listen to this since more than 15 Hubbard's finest young men and women are serving in the armed forces at this time, "It's a one-two punch. Obama's second punch is to push the START Treaty through with the Russians. Try this logic. The nuclear threat in the world is clearly coming from North Korea, Iran, and possibly from any Muslim Jihadist terrorist that could get their hands on weapons. So Obama spends a little time DEMONIZING these threats, and then argues that if we will REGULATE ourselves by reducing our nuclear arsenal and by not developing a nuclear missile defense system the bad guys will respond positively to the example we will set. As Newt Gingrich says, 'don't listen to what Obama says but watch what he does'. And what he is doing is weakening our military with aims to CONFISCATE, which has to be done in a Socialist takeover."
Butch came back in, "I bet the next leftist move will be to try to build on the Gay movement's military success by attempting to weaken our family structures even more. They will try to destroy the definition of marriage which is the heart of the family. You have to destroy the family if you are going to destroy a Christian Nation. They will try to sneak this through as Republicans are busy pissing people off by cutting spending and working on the deficit. Sometimes I think Socialists are smarter than we are. But it is easy to appear to be smart when you can lie, cheat, and steal all with the approval of the Federal Government and the ggovernment-owned press."
Summing up BM said, "I assume Obama's Muslim buddies don't plan to serve in the US military since they hate gays so much. In fact gays in the military is a negative for people from any religion. If your goal is a strong military just seems like this is another one of those upside down things that Obama usually espouses. Either he thinks the military will be stronger with just atheists or he wants a weaker military. As Dick Morris says, 'Obama is either stupid or a Socialist, and he isn't stupid'."
Think about it,
Jim
Scott Riddle, local rancher and insurance baron, has given the Cafe a formula that they are using to test current events in DC, which is on a path of becoming the Socialist Capital of the World. Scott's formula was:
DEMONIZE
REGULATE
CONFISCATE
Now that the high school football season is over, even though Hubbard went 0-10 and never had a season, Butch Jackson has more time to follow world events, "The Teapartyers did some damage to Obama's plans to take control of the US economy so he is going strong to takeover and cripple our National Defense while we have our guards down thinking we just need to cut Government spending and reduce the deficit. Obama couldn't agree more about cutting government spending if it weakens our defenses. With the help of Republicans in name only he pushed through a repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'."
Scott says it fits the formula, "I heard the Socialist media DEMONIZING the military by talking about how 'ignorant' military people are by being afraid that gays would attack them in their showers. Obama says every other military in the world has gays. He never mentions that most of them don't fight wars and depend on the US for protection. The REGULATION is clear by forcing the military to become a vehicle for 'social justice' which will cause tremendous disruption while Obama is asking us to fight two wars with our hands tied behind our backs. In Afghanistan Obama insists we are there to disrupt Al Queda who left Afghanistan long ago. Meanwhile our troops are fighting the Taliban while Obama's plan is to negotiate a peace with the Taliban and leave. The CONFISCATE step will come when the Socialists must take control of the military, along with police forces, after having weakened them through REGULATION."
Billy Roy couldn't just sit back and listen to this since more than 15 Hubbard's finest young men and women are serving in the armed forces at this time, "It's a one-two punch. Obama's second punch is to push the START Treaty through with the Russians. Try this logic. The nuclear threat in the world is clearly coming from North Korea, Iran, and possibly from any Muslim Jihadist terrorist that could get their hands on weapons. So Obama spends a little time DEMONIZING these threats, and then argues that if we will REGULATE ourselves by reducing our nuclear arsenal and by not developing a nuclear missile defense system the bad guys will respond positively to the example we will set. As Newt Gingrich says, 'don't listen to what Obama says but watch what he does'. And what he is doing is weakening our military with aims to CONFISCATE, which has to be done in a Socialist takeover."
Butch came back in, "I bet the next leftist move will be to try to build on the Gay movement's military success by attempting to weaken our family structures even more. They will try to destroy the definition of marriage which is the heart of the family. You have to destroy the family if you are going to destroy a Christian Nation. They will try to sneak this through as Republicans are busy pissing people off by cutting spending and working on the deficit. Sometimes I think Socialists are smarter than we are. But it is easy to appear to be smart when you can lie, cheat, and steal all with the approval of the Federal Government and the ggovernment-owned press."
Summing up BM said, "I assume Obama's Muslim buddies don't plan to serve in the US military since they hate gays so much. In fact gays in the military is a negative for people from any religion. If your goal is a strong military just seems like this is another one of those upside down things that Obama usually espouses. Either he thinks the military will be stronger with just atheists or he wants a weaker military. As Dick Morris says, 'Obama is either stupid or a Socialist, and he isn't stupid'."
Think about it,
Jim
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